Eating

If you find yourself excessively shaking the salt shaker these days, chances are it’s not a newfound love of salty food. Rather, biology (and aging) may be coming into play. That is, as we age, our ability to taste and smell food weakens so that our ability to taste the…

With continued disappointing news about forthcoming drugs to address Alzheimer’s, you might begin to despair that there’s little you can do to prevent an Alzheimer’s or dementia diagnosis and that you may as well throw up your arms in distress. However, as we’ve pointed out in previous posts, there are…

Have you been firing up the grill this summer with the usual summer fare? Burgers and hotdogs, along with the chips, sodas, and ice cream that signal it’s truly a summertime meal? Well, going forward, you may want to make some healthy substitutions, as two new studies report that the…

In a summer already burdened with extreme heat worldwide, you can never get too much information on how to protect yourself and look for the signs and symptoms of heat distress. Along with serious illness that can come from overheating is the threat of dehydration, something already of concern for…

While we’ve previously described both the pros and cons of supplementing your nutritional intake with various vitamins and supplements, the United States Preventive Services Task Force recently released a systematic review and set of recommendations regarding the use of multivitamins that should have all of us sitting up and taking…

While we have no choice but to wait for medications or interventions that can cure dementia, we are not without weapons in our arsenal to reduce the risk of this scourge. As we’ve previously reiterated, there are a host of lifestyle interventions that may not cure dementia but are known…